Ruby Wellman, a reclusive surrealist artist, hides a deep and horrifying childhood secret. So does Finn McCord, a profoundly disturbed six-year-old who talks only to animals and imaginary friends. Their lives intersect in Kingdom Come, a tiny mountain town in the middle of nowhere, California.

Judy Strick a native of Southern California. She has an MFA from OtisArt Institute. In a former lifetime she was a fine artist, then a toy designer. She studied screenwriting at AFI and fiction writing at UCLA, and has spent the last ten years honing her novelistic skills.Kingdom Come, CA is her debut novel. She lives in L.A. with her 2.5 dogs.